The Flowers By Alice Walker Summary

In the Flowers by Alice Walker, it talks about a little girl named Myop and how she discovers the unthinkable. Her whole life was the farm that her parents owned, until one day she decided to step out and explore outside the fence of the farm for the very first time. She was intrigued at how beautiful it was once she left the farm, the flowers were blooming, the stream was flowing, and it was sunny with blue skies. Everything around her was the pure example of beauty so she wanted more, as she kept walking farther than she had been before she stumbled across a dead man that had been there for awhile and her summer was over. However, Alice Walker portrays the theme of “The Loss of Innocence”. This theme is supported by Symbolism/imagery, Setting, Plot, and Irony.
The imagery in blossoms is upheld by, Wild blooms of distinctiveness as they are being picked by Myop. The blossoms speak to guiltlessness, and the magnificence of life. The dead man
Myop has lost her purity. Her name "Myop" is a suggestion to her ignorance. This is not knowing or being foolish, the recent of which can likewise mean lacking understanding or intelligence. In this story, Myop needs life knowledge. She doesn't yet know or comprehend the viciousness of the world. Her experience with the dead body and the remaining parts of a noose give her a starting lesson in the cold-bloodedness and roughness of life. When she sets out her flowers, it is typical of a signal for the perished man, yet it is likewise typical of her setting out her blamelessness.
Throughout the story Flowers, Alice Walker vividly portrays the theme “The Loss of Innocence” through her exceptional use of symbolism, setting, plot and irony. However, the word of Alice Walker leaves an emblematic mark in my life as a reader, as it appealed to me in many ways. All in all, credit is due to her scholarly attempts to draw reader in and for the relativeness in the short